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" And tho' it must be granted, that it is very difficult to read them, and to raise a Chronology out of them, and to state the intervalls of the times wherein such, or such catastrophies and mutations have happened ; yet 'tis not impossible... "
Principles of Geology: Being an Inquiry how Far the Former Changes of the ... - Page 48
by Sir Charles Lyell - 1837 - 546 pages
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Principles of Geology: Or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and Its ...

Sir Charles Lyell - 1854 - 870 pages
...However trivial a thing," he says, " a rotten shell may appear to »ome, yet these monuments of nature are more certain tokens of antiquity than coins or...sufficiently satisfied has often been actually practised," Ac. ; " and though it must be granted that it is very difficult to read them (the records of nature)...
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Cosmogony? or the Records of the Creation. By F. G. S.

F. G. S. - 1858 - 116 pages
...However trivial a thing," he says, "a rotten shell may appear to some, yet these monuments of nature are more certain tokens of antiquity than coins or...those may be counterfeited or made by art and design." " And, though it must be granted, that it is very difficult to read these records of nature and to...
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Principles of Geology, Or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and Its ..., Volume 1

Sir Charles Lyell - 1872 - 712 pages
...However trivial a thing,' he says, ' a rotten shell mayappear to some, yet these monuments of nature are more certain tokens of antiquity than coins or...now sufficiently satisfied has often been actually * For an able analysis of the views on the Progress of Geological Science, of Leibnitz, in his Protogcea,...
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Principles of Geology: Or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and Its ..., Volume 1

Sir Charles Lyell - 1872 - 714 pages
...However trivial a thing,' he says, ' a rotten shell may appear to some, yet these monuments of nature are more certain tokens of antiquity than coins or...now sufficiently satisfied has often been actually * For an able analysis of the -views on the Progress of Geological Science, of Leibnitz, in his Protogrea,...
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The Founders of Geology

Archibald Geikie - 1905 - 514 pages
...that can be fetched out of coins or medals, or any other way yet known, since the best of those ways may be counterfeited or made by art and design, as...sufficiently satisfied, has often been actually practised ; but those characters [fossil shells] are not to be counterfeited by all the craft in the world, nor...
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The Founders of Geology

Archibald Geikie - 1905 - 536 pages
...what they appear, by any one that will impartially examine the true appearances of them : And tho' it must be granted that it is very difficult to read them and to raise a chronology out of them, and to state the intervalls of the times, wherein such or such...
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The Science-history of the Universe, Volume 2

Francis Rolt-Wheeler - 1909 - 326 pages
..."However trivial a thing," he says, "a rotten shell may appear to some, yet these monuments of Nature are more certain tokens of antiquity than coins or...now sufficiently satisfied has often been actually practiced, and tho it must be granted that it is very difficult to read them (the records of Nature)...
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An Introduction to Palaeontology

Arthur Morley Davies - 1920 - 440 pages
...wrote, " yet these monuments of nature are more certain tokens of antiquity than coins or medals . . . and though it must be granted that it is very difficult to read them and to raise a chronology out of them . . . yet it is not impossible." It was William Smith who, at...
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Telychian Rocks of the British Isles and China (Silurian, Llandovery Series ...

Charles Hepworth Holland, Michael G. Bassett - 2002 - 216 pages
...do generally too much slight and pass over without regard these records of antiquity ...; And tho' it must be granted, that it is very difficult to read them, and to raise a Chronology out of them, and to state the intervalls of the times wherin such, or such...
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Robert Hooke: Tercentennial Studies

Michael Cooper, Michael Cyril William Hunter - 2006 - 368 pages
...expressed by Hooke more than 100 years before the great stratigrapher William 'Strata' Smith: And tho' it must be granted, that it is very difficult to read them, and to raise a Chronology [Hooke's own italics] out of them, and to state the intervalls of the Times...
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